A thread on the history of Fc Bayern ans it's resistance on nazi and facist ideas in the 1930's.

I made this thread because the ongrowing amount of pl fans calling Fc Bayern a nazi club which actually is the opposite

All information in this thread is from Fc Bayern museum and wikepidiea.

Bayern were founded in the bohemian quarter of Schwabing, and were very much a Jewish club before the second world war, with a Jewish president and a Jewish manager. As consequence, Bayern were targeted by the Nazis but players and officials continued to defy the regime.

On the club's founding charter from 1900, two out of 17 signatories were Jewish. One of them, the Dortmund-born artist Benno Elkan, would later emigrate to London and become a prominent sculptor

From 1911, Bayern were led by Kurt Landauer, the son of a wealthy Jewish businessman, and the team were coached by a succession of Jewish coaches, including the Austro‑Hungarian Richard "Little" Dombi, who went on to manage Barcelona and Feyenoord.

Landauer had to resign, along with a number of other Jewish members and officials, when Hitler seized power a few months later and fled to Switzerland after 33 days in the Dachau concentration camp

As consequence, Bayern were discredited as a Judenklub (Jew club) by the Nazis

some of Bayern's stand against nazism from club members and players include:

In 1934, Bayern players were involved in a brawl with Nazi brownshirts. Two years later, the Bayern winger Willy Simetsreiter made a point of having his picture taken with Jesse Owens (black American athlete), who enraged Hitler by winning four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.

The full-back Sigmund Haringer narrowly escaped prison for calling a Nazi flag parade a "kids' theatre".

The captain, Conny Heidkamp, and his wife hid Bayern's silverware when other clubs heeded an appeal from Reichsmarschall Herman Göring to donate metal for the war effort.

The most symbolic act of defiance occurred in Zurich in 1943. After a friendly against the Swiss national team, the Bayern players lined up to wave at the exiled Landauer in the stands.

Landauer returned to Munich after the war and once again became Bayern president until 1951. But his legacy became lost. Club publications simply mentioned that he had to leave Germany "on political-racial grounds". "The word 'Jew' was assiduously avoided

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